Russert Newsman Quotes & Sayings

After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you. — V.E Schwab

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau

The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with — Thomas Moore

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see. — Nikki Sixx

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves. — Abhijit Naskar

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise. — Thomas Reid